Photo: Andrew Hill · CC BY-SA 2.0Less crime per resident is recorded in Glossop than in 68% of UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people
Recorded violence held steady in a year. The yearly rates were 28.1 violent and sexual offences and 9.3 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents. The typical town its size sees 6.1 cases of shoplifting per 1,000 residents; Glossop sees 9.8, or 174 in the 12 months to August 2026.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Glossop
Less crime than many places its size
Of 333 UK towns of 12,000 to 24,000 people, Glossop has the 117th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Dungannon, Buckley and Shiney Row and Penshaw, higher than Tavistock, Westbury and Chapeltown and High Green. Towns its size ↓
Many neighbourhoods rank low for crime nationally
The government’s Indices of Deprivation 2025 rank every neighbourhood in England on recorded crime. 18% of Glossop’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 10% in one of the highest-crime 20%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
The C+ for Glossop, and how it is built
A firm grade. Built on 1,991 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Glossop against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Glossop runs highest on shoplifting (9.8 per 1,000 against 6.1), public order (7.2 per 1,000 against 5.4) and burglary (2.9 per 1,000 against 2.4). Criminal damage & arson and vehicle crime sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 461 | 25.9 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 190 | 10.7 | 12.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 174 | 9.8 | 6.1 |
| Public order | not graded | 129 | 7.2 | 5.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 74 | 4.2 | 6.2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 66 | 3.7 | 4.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 51 | 2.9 | 2.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 40 | 2.2 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 26 | 1.5 | 2.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 24 | 1.3 | 1.8 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 10 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
| Robbery | Violent | 6 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.3 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.3 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
1 in 5 Glossop residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
50% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 10% in the highest-crime 20%. The crime domain scores the risk of violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Glossop’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (crime domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of England’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
Glossop places 117th of 333 towns its size, the least crime first
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kesgrave Suffolk | 14,947 | 13 | 3.3 | 2.7 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 20 | Dronfield Derbyshire | 21,161 | 15.9 | 8.5 | 8.9 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 22 | Hadfield Derbyshire | 16,271 | 17.5 | 7.3 | 4.1 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 76 | Belper Derbyshire | 19,076 | 25.6 | 6.7 | 9 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 114 | Tavistock Devon | 12,676 | 27.9 | 9.1 | 9.2 | C+ |
| 115 | Westbury Wiltshire | 16,394 | 26.2 | 11 | 6.3 | C+ |
| 116 | Chapeltown and High Green South Yorkshire | 22,187 | 24.5 | 12.7 | 12.8 | C+ |
| 117 | Glossop Derbyshire | 17,820 | 28.1 | 9.3 | 13.7 | C+ |
| 118 | Hailsham East Sussex | 22,560 | 26.6 | 10.9 | 8.9 | C+ |
| 119 | Darton South Yorkshire | 15,016 | 25.6 | 12.2 | 5.3 | C+ |
| 120 | Bridport Dorset | 12,294 | 28 | 9.9 | 10.4 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 190 | South Normanton and Pinxton Derbyshire | 16,028 | 33.1 | 12.9 | 9.3 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 333 | Haverfordwest Dyfed | 12,088 | 91.4 | 28.6 | 32.3 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Glossop, and others in Derbyshire.
Lowest recorded crime in Simmondley, Dinting and Old Glossop; highest in Howard Town
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simmondley | 4,159 | 14.6 | 5 | |
| Dinting | 2,161 | 17.1 | 5.1 | |
| Old Glossop | 4,517 | 17.4 | 5.4 | |
| Whitfield | 2,303 | 45.7 | 10.6 | |
| Howard Town | 4,680 | 46.4 | 18 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Nightclubs | 162 | 38% violent |
| Shopping areas | 143 | 38% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 58 | 53% shoplifting & theft |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 36 | 42% anti-social behaviour |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Howard Town records 2.2× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Glossop. police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Glossop. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Glossop’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
How crime in Glossop has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling six-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year (longer windows for smaller places, where a few crimes swing a month). In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent -4% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -18% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +7% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -47% (towns its size -4%).
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 66% of Glossop’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 13% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (65% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 7% of violent and 4% of household crimes reached court.
The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 681 crimes.
Crime in Glossop per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 8 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 13 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
No one died in a collision on Glossop’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 77 collisions with injuries inside Glossop in five years. 16 people were killed or seriously injured: 6 on foot and 1 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: at their median rate (0.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Glossop’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Glossop’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Glossop had 17.5 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people (23.8).
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Glossop’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Glossop
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossop | 17,820 | 28.1 | 9.3 | C+ |
| Gamesley | 3,124 | 39.6 | 15.8 | C− |
| Hadfield | 16,271 | 17.5 | 7.3 | B+ |
| Broadbottom | 1,001 | — | — | — |
| Hattersley | 6,959 | — | — | — |
| Hayfield | 1,878 | 20.4 | 6.7 | B |
| Marple Bridge | 4,702 | — | — | — |
| Stalybridge | 26,850 | — | — | — |
Glossop records more graded crime per resident than 2 of its 3 neighbours; only Gamesley records more. Hadfield, 1.7 miles away, records 17.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Glossop’s 28.1.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Glossop sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Glossop
Is Glossop safe?
Police recorded 28.1 violent and sexual offences and 9.3 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Glossop’s built-up area). That earns a C+ for safety: less crime per resident than 40% of UK towns. Among 333 UK towns of 12,000 to 24,000 people, Glossop is 117th from the least crime. 18% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
What are the safest areas of Glossop?
By council ward, Simmondley, Dinting and Old Glossop record the least violent and household crime per resident: 14.6, 17.1 and 17.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 46.4 in Howard Town.
Is crime going up in Glossop?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 18%, shoplifting and theft rose 7% and anti-social behaviour fell 47%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
Is Glossop town centre safe at night?
police.uk placed 162 crimes and reports at or near nightclubs in three years, 38% of them violent, and Howard Town ward records 46.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 of its residents a year. Over the last two years, violent crime peaked in June and was lowest in March.
What is the most common crime in Glossop?
Violence & sexual offences: 461 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (174) and public order (129), with 190 reports of anti-social behaviour.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain by LSOA (residents from ONS Census 2021) · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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